The Camosun College Continuing Education department requires dynamic, qualified instructors to teach hands-on software and design courses in our popular Web Design Certificate program. Courses are 18-hours in length and normally scheduled two evenings per week (5:30-9:30pm) plus some Saturday mornings. Instructors are needed for the following courses: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator and Graphic Design [...]

TeamPages.com is a venture-backed company seeking a skilled, driven, and experienced Senior Developer to join our 4-person team in our downtown Vancouver office. We are a fast paced, Web 2.0 company that enables sports teams, leagues and athletes to manage their athletic schedules and communication online. We have a small, energetic team with [...]

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab [ETCL] at the University of Victoria is looking to add a dynamic and resourceful web developer to our team. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of a rich internet application geared towards aiding professional readers. Programming work will be of an object oriented nature and will be done [...]

CSS Naked that is! The brainchild of standards wise developer Dustin Diaz, the third inaugural CSS Naked Day attests to the importance of Web Standards. That means using semantic markup, XHTML, and meaningful structure; form follows function! This being a web standards biased group, how could we not participate? As Dustin puts it so well: It’s time [...]

Google Earthed, that is. According to TIME magazine [article], the city of Nanaimo grabbed the Google Earth train only five years ago and have been pumping municipal data like fire service dispatches, utility lines, restaurants - even lawn mowing schedules - into it ever since. Google Earth’s CEO adds that “[Nanaimo] citizens have more information [...]

[ April 10, 2008; 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. ] Ryerson University student Chris Avenir finally received comfort today after weeks on trial of facing expulsion over conducting a Facebook run studygroup for his Chem class [CBC article]. University officials originally pointed fingers at the online studygroup as cheating (in fact some members had posted answers to exam questions [canada.com]); however, Avenir himself did not [...]

[ April 3, 2008; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] “Just like DemoCampVancouver, this group is all about demoing your innovative idea to people from all areas of business. High tech, art, non-profit, or anything else; it doesn’t matter!” Welp, count me in! The event is free to attend, and it sounds like the round up so far is interesting (demo’s from the Flock guys in [...]

Is it just me or was it only yesterday the hype for IE8 just started, and now they’re releasing the Beta! Couple of interesting things about IE8: it passes the Acid2 test (which technically means it’s more standards compliant than Firefox, which doesn’t pass the test), and if you’ve been following the discussion on IE8’s [...]

Open Cinema is looking for a person to volunteer 4 to 6 hours per month to work on the Open Cinema website in WordPress - opencinema.ca. Anyone interested is encouraged to contact Valerie Elliott, Managing & Creative Director of iD2 Communications Inc., for more information.

[ February 19, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Well it’s been too long - but, not long enough to plan world domination. So lets muse over our future plans in a more relaxing atmosphere of beers, and at our old stomping grounds no less. Get together with old friends, make new ones, and bring some ideas along with you. See you then! February 19, Tuesday [...]